Quotes About Maturity

The rate at which a person can mature is directly proportional to the embarrassment he can tolerate.

I'm like a fine wine. I get better with age. The best is yet to come.

If you want children to keep their feet on the ground, put some responsibility on their shoulders.

No one should be ashamed to admit they are wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that they are wiser today than they were yesterday.

When you're green, your growing. When you're ripe, you rot.

We still talk in terms of conquest. We still haven't become mature enough to think of ourselves as only a tiny part of a vast and incredible universe.

The useless men are those who never change with the years.

You can never get ahead by trying to get even.

We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it.

Do not go through life; grow through life.

We had our thing. It is a really good memory but now we're older. Things change.

It's taken me all my life to learn what not to play.

Over the years I hope I've become more of a musican and less of a guitarist.

When I'm 40, too old to be a rock star, I plan to go back to college to study classical music.

I tend to avoid writing music about initial reactions to situations, like frustration or anger. I'd rather wait till I go through the problem, and write about the learning that took place.

The age of a person doesn't matter. The sweetest music is played on the oldest violin.

I've matured as a person and so has the music... It's gotten more sophisticated and interesting I think.

Musically, he was like an old man in a boy's skin.

Now that I'm older, I like almost anything that's done well, even surf music and instrumentals; I really enjoyed the interviews with the Ventures in your magazine.

Jazz is like wine. When it is new it's only for the experts, but when it gets older everybody wants it.

Music actually meant something when I started doing it. Too bad I wasn't mature enough to write anything that meant anything.

Good native Taste, tho' rude, is seldom wrong, Be it in music, painting, or in song: But this, as well as other faculties, Improves with age and ripens by degrees.

Our basic audience begins with creaking elderly types of twenty-three and above.

I've done a lot of growing up since the age of 16 and I really wanted that to be reflected in my music